Corner Post Bar and Dining Room

Parties

Not all problems of existence can be solved by the use of a dictionary. Knowing, for instance, that a unicorn is a horse with a horn on its nose, either with or without wings, does not really tell us whether they exist. Adding to the definition that they are mythical creatures, brings into question some people’s unquestionable experience of unicorns (empirical evidence in the strictest sense of the word). Insisting that their experience is an hallucination would be to offend their inalienable right to a personal belief system. And so, questions of existence, evidently, can easily become an issue for the constitutional court.
Similarly, Parties, can be taken to be events characterised by the congregation of a group of people to celebrate a particular event or just for reasons of shared pleasure. This, of course, does not mean that there are such things as Parties. The existence of groups of people would depend, firstly, on what a ‘person’ is. Philosophers have it that the identity of a person might cease to exist every time they make a significant life change. Ironically, parties often constitute such life changing experiences.
So, a word of warning from your heroes at the Corner Post, who have all continued to exist after the celebrations of Christmas: Don’t tell even yourself you are going to a party, on pain of bringing into question your own existence and, therefore, making it impossible for anyone else to have fun because of a vanquished party.
Got to go now, I am late, so late, terribly late for tea with a girl, a hatter and a dormouse.

Featuring on the menu this week

• Aperitif: Corner Post Kir (dry white wine with home-made mulberry liquor)
• Thai style mussel soup
• Rocket, baked tomato and olive salad with shaved parmesan
• Tiger prawn cocktail
• Potato pancake with Franschhoek smoked salmon
• Grilled quail with semolina gnocchi, shitake mushrooms and sage
• Home-made tagliatelle with tomato, basil and parmesan
• Chicken and red wine potjie with rice
• Free-range chicken schnitzel with pasta rice salad
• Rack of Karoo lamb with spiced aubergine salad
• Rasberry zabaglione tart
• Hot chocolate fondant with white chocolate and mint ice cream
• Christmas pudding ice cream or pineapple sorbet

Important announcement:

Do not tell anyone, there will be a fantastic party at the Corner Post on New Year’s eve.
Entrance fee: R10
Bar fish and chips or burger and chips for R25 from 6 to 11
Bacon rolls for R10 at 2 in the morning